Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like old Captain Joshua Slocum almost 40 years before him, like salty Harry Pidgeon, who followed Herman Melville's Typee course, like seagoing Soldier-Tennist Alain Gerbault-cockle-shell Magellans all-Dwight Long had set his sails to go round the world. He had $200 cash, a guarantee of $25 a month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii...
...emergency relief venture. Yet the Program could be made to sound like an anti-New Dealer's sweetest dream, and was, by such journals as the American Banker, the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan-not without aid from the No. 2 Mormon, First Counselor of the First Presidency Joshua Reuben Clark, an arch-Republican...
Half of his evidence is a chronicle of bygone Maine war heroes and sea captains, chief among them Kenneth Roberts' ancestors (already well-known to his readers). A new Maine hero is Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, commanding the Twentieth Maine Volunteers, who later, as Governor, was universally denounced as a rabid tory. But for him. says Roberts, "the Union army would have lost the Battle of Gettysburg and, in all probability...
...Joshua B. Burnet -- Miss Eunice Thompson, Vassar...
...Gown and Tiger Inn a 3,000-mile booze bust around the country at Christmastime. Not all Triangle show boys are out exclusively for a good time, however, and it is this type which goes out into the cold world and becomes actors, singers and directors like James Stuart, Joshua Logan, Ned Wever, Frank Chapman, Phillips Holmes, Myron McCormick, Bretaigne Windust, Jose Ferrer. These have created in the Triangle Club a small but sound tradition of showmanship which the 49th annual production -Fol-De-Rol, which began its tour...